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Word: womening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frontier loyal Afghan troops under War Minister Mohammed Vali Khan rushed to succor Kabul last week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Shrewd Rebels, Smart Mother | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lindbergh & Massacre! | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention to such flights made by women as women. The recognized world endurance record is 65½ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...prizes for its second annual radio auditions. Some 60,000 singers between 18 and 25 had competed for $5,000, a gold decoration and a two-year scholarship at a leading U. S. conservatory. Contralto Hazel Cecilia Arth, 25, of Washington, D. C., was voted best of the women; Tenor Donald Norris, 22, of Pasadena, Calif., best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Prizes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Statistics from 216 colleges and universities showed a 2% increase in enrollment. Revealed were such facts as these: the largest divinity school (298 students) in the U. S. is in Chicago; Hunter College (Manhattan) is the largest women's college (4,918 students); the largest liberal arts college is the University of California (9,783 students); the largest law school is at New York University (1,785 students) ; Pennsylvania has the largest dental school (430 students); University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Largest California | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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